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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(Western US, of a tree being felled) To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward..
Once when a tree barber-chaired, this was on a steep hillside, it was a dramatic display of a diving tree.
It would have barber-chaired on him. The little ones had barber-chaired but they weren't split up very high.
He made the first cut, the notch, and then as he made the back cut, it barber-chaired and kicked back on him.
Cutting through a limb that's bowed under the weight of the tree will create a mini barber-chair effect and the limb could shoot out at you when you release the pressure by cutting it.
Use barber-chair when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Barber-chair means (Western US, of a tree being felled) To split vertically upward from the partial cut and fall or kick outward..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Once when a tree barber-chaired, this was on a steep hillside, it was a dramatic display of a diving tree.
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